The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-02-03

The United States Senate is the
most honorable body of men in the
world. To see them once is to retain
respect for its dignity and brains. So
cially Senator may rank, and has in
many instances ranked the President
himself in the society of Washington
when the officially social etiquette
that hedges the President is not in
volved. The English House OF Lords
is a stiff and tame affair, hated OF the
people and consciously unimportant
the French Senate which is not free OF
men of heretical and communistic ten
denotes, suffers the confusing effects ;
the German Reichtag is more dlgnl-
fed than the latter and more sensi-
tive to modern thought than the for
mer, but still is less impressive tlan
the United States Senate This last
is of the culled men of sixty millions
of people, double wrought and many
times refined. Individual instances
of weak brain may get in, but as a
body the United States Senate is the
strongest concentration OF brains II
this or any other country. 1t is no
to be doubted that a Senator is M
honored and as rule an honorable
man in Washington, and lion by Sc
lection. 1t is thing Of the rarest oc
currence that a State sends there on
who is not in education and persona
r and public honor fitted for the higI
; position.-American.
Lord Tennyson's eyesight is failin
him to such an extent as to cause 81
rious alarm among his numerous eli
n Gle OF friends
n A citizen OF Chicago-Hamden b
II name wants to be one OF fifty me
3 to adopt knee-breeches for constar
IL wear. The other forty-nine han
i back
4 Mrs. Fisher, brunette, with goC
w features, fine eyes, and ready tongu
81 runs an eighty horsepower Harri
Ia Corliss engine in Providence, and do
10 it well.
lg Six young hopefuls in Polk cou
r. ty, Ga, family answer to these name
ng Mollie Necklace, Quincy Ann,
DIS Tommy, Happy Josie, hester Chest
)e- and l. Wonder
=, ;" We think of New Brunswick as
~ country of snow and ice, but it is
~ ported that at St. Andrews, on Chri
,no mas Day, Robert Glenn had on
wv table a bouquet of pansies picked
:. his garden that morning,
nd A tobogganer of Magog, Quebec,
.ol. the envy of his comrades because
m. owns dog that will draw his tob
ra- gan up to the top of the slide, and !
ere only that, will get on and ride do
ap- alone if permitted.
ere An Indianapolis family were tro
led with diphtheria for several wee
ut During the illness of the children Il
TO played much with pet parrot, VIII
owe they handled considerably. A
nat they got we'll the bird became i'll,
AIRY in a few days died, showing all
be- symptoms OF diphtheria,
80 Hamlet was played at Baltin
"a the other evening, and one of
Ia dramatic critics rose to the occas
49, and thus dished up the actor who p
49, ed Polonius His conception OF
- : part was natural and the characte,
-. the foolish old man was not come
~, dy Of" This certainly sounds sor
I'm Shakespearean.
Mrs. Esther Van Woert, who k
grit. her husband in self-deience at Ste
and dale, was acquitted by a jury.
for The Gate City Guard of Atlanta
bet. parade in full uniform under arm
'ver France and Belgium
,,o,, Secretary Bayard denies having
~, a despatch to Minister Phelps il
IN, regard to surrendering the Br
schooners seized in Alaskan waite
De- Chattanooga is enjoying a
real estate boom.